The City of Coral Gables, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, is located southwest of Downtown Miami with a population of approximately 50,000 people. The City of Coral Gables promotes the development of a smart city ecosystem that fosters innovation by bringing together through technology People, Businesses, Organizations, Things, and Systems. By leveraging strategic planning and innovation, the City’s digital transformation and smart initiatives can benefit its citizens with continual improvement to customer service and quality of life. Its smart city plan implements several interconnected and interoperable elements that include a Smart City Hub, Data Platforms, Internet of Things, and a robust and resilient technology infrastructure, especially critical in times of severe weather, with high-speed communications.

Raimundo Rodulfo, Director of Information Technology for the City of Coral Gables, will discuss the technical challenges that the city faced when it was creating a resistant, reliable communications network to safeguard its infrastructure and ensure uptime of critical services. Additionally, he will provide comments on their current efforts and discuss the challenges they are facing as they move forward with the development of the Coral Gables collaboration and open data platform.